‘Battleship’ directed by Peter Berg (Hancock) has a poorly constructed script, ridiculous dialogue, cardboard charcters and it’s really, really loud. It does have bad ass aliens and some exciting visual effects, but that is not enough to save this

Sacha Baron Cohen…People either love him or hate him. It’s hard to feel indifferent about this outrageous, over the top, and at times, super obnoxious, man. Personally, I admire his chutzpah. In his new film, ‘The Dictator’ a mock-documentary dir

For those of you, like myself, who aren’t familiar with the television series ‘Dark Shadows’ which ran from 1966-1971, here are the film’s cliff notes… The year…1750 (give or take) A wealthy young man named Barnabus Collins (Johnny Depp) get

‘The Avengers’ written and directed by Joss Whedon (‘Cabin In The Woods’) has not one, not two, but six Super Heroes, who, under the leadership of Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), director of the international peacekeeping agency, S.H.I.E.L.D. come

First off, I must say that there are some actors that I just enjoy watching…Doesn’t really matter all that much what they do up on the silver screen…I just like them…And Jason Statham is one of them. Is he a great actor? That’s yet to be determ

Unlike John, the other half of the ‘Two Jews On Film, it doesn’t take a lot for me to enjoy a film…Basically, I want to care about the characters and their story. And this brings me to my problem with…’The Five Year Engagement’, directed by Ni

The music of Bob Marley makes me feel really, really good. I could be in the worst mood, stuck in traffic…Whatever…All I have to do is click on ‘One Love’, ‘Exodus’ or ‘No Woman No Cry’ and my spirits soar. However, my knowledge of Bob Ma

‘The Cabin In The Woods’, written by Josh Whedon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer & Avengers) and Drew Goddard (Cloverfield) who also directed, is one of the most clever horror films I’ve seen in a really long time. Okay, without giving too much away, her

First I must say, that I have never been a fan of ‘The Three Stooges’…never watched their tv show way back when or understood their appeal. Slapstick, over the top comedy has never been my thing. So you can imagine how much I was dreading seeing th

The year is 2079…And in this so-called SciFi futuristic thriller, entitled ‘Lockout’, 500 of the most violent criminals are kept in a state of suspended animation on a space station orbiting above earth. This high tech penitentiary is known as MS On